and from Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Wafāʾ, as well as from the ḥadith scholar Ḥammād. He transmitted a great deal, and in earlier years he held teaching sessions in Damascus and later in Ḥarrān.
Those who narrated from him include al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Ẓāhirī, Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Muḥammad ibn Zibāṭ, Amīn al-Dīn Ibn Shuqayr, ʿAbd al-Aḥad ibn Taymiyyah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dashtī, Muḥammad ibn Dirbās al-Ḥākī, and others, the last of them being al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī Ibn al-Ḥubayshī.
He was a devout, unassuming shaykh.
He passed away toward the end of 652 AH, at the age of one hundred and one years and a few months.
Along with him there also died: Abū al-Makārim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Naqqāsh al-Sikka of Egypt; al-Rashīd Ismāʿīl, son of the jurist and Qurʾān-reciter Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿIrāqī al-Jābī; the centenarian ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hakkārī, who reached one hundred and five years—al-Dimyāṭī had recited to him the Ṣaḥīḥ through the chain of Abū al-Waqt; the theologian Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿĪsā al-Khusrawshāhī; Ibn Taymiyyah, author of al-Aḥkām; al-Nāṣiḥ Faraj al-Ḥabashī, servant of Abū Jaʿfar al-Qurṭubī; Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khalīl al-Andalusī; Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah al-Naṣībī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Baqāʾ ibn al-Sabbāk; and al-Shadīd ibn ʿAllān.

190* Ibn Maslamah, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Mufarraj ibn ʿAlī al-Dimashqī
The eminent, upright, long-lived shaykh, the musnid of Damascus, Rashīd al-Dīn, Abū al-ʿAbbās